involved in campaigns which can attract young people.
the YS to become a campaigning organisation, taking up issues such I think is becoming increasingly important: youth unemployment.
were to become involved in these issues, it could grow very rapidly.
a big struggle against the Militant the organisation.
Yours comradely, PL (Richmond)
Dear Cde.
In the last issue Action, Dave Messa Misrahi round!!:::* position o:: increases.
I was very impressed by Graham Weight's article on the LPYS in the last issue of Socialist Action. In my opinion, one of the big problems of the YS is that it has never really got criticised.
Graham mentions the need for as the cuts, women's abortion rights, Yours comradely, nuclear power and Ireland. I would agree, but I would add another which Dear Cde, Like him, I think that if the YS Unfortunately, to do this will mean tendency which presently dominates at the recues.
While I would agree with Cde McLeod's analysis, I think it was untair to publish such an article without allowing readers a chance to see the article that was being In matters of debate, readers should always be allowed to see the two views and to make up their minds on the merits of the argument.
Dave Purser (North London)
I read your article on Afghanistan in the last issue and was frankly amazed. It read like something out of 'Soviet Weekly' rather than out of a paper supposedly defending democratic socialism.
Do you really believe that the Red Army was sent into Afghanistar. troops was a violation of the rights of the Afghan people. They were sent merely to defend the Soviet borders and to gain access to the 'warm waters' of the Indian Ocean.
While I do not support the hysterical outbursts in the Western press, I equally do not support apologetics for the Kremlin bureaucrats who gave up defending working people years ago.
Yours comradely, Steve Alderman (Brighton)
Dear Cde, I'm glad to see that at least one paper - Socialist Action - - didn't join in the hypocritical chorus denouncing the Soviet Union for intervening in Afghanistan.
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